Wishes

I want my school to be better, better, better, the best...

Genuinity

It is such a good feeling to be in the same environment with people who really care about you, who love you, and who show this care to you.

It is very difficult to make good friends who are happy when you are happy and who are sad when you are sad.

Thanks to you all around whom I am comfortable. Thanks to you all who care about me. Thanks to you all who show their feelings, who give their support, who teach me and who make me who I am and who are "really" happy when I am happy, who wish the best for me. Thanks for being rational and brave!

Achieving Peak Performance

A Tip from Things to Walk Away With:

Apply a delegative management style depending on company / circumstance.

Multicultural Environment At BMI

Rainforests of Honduras
Turkish and Lebanese Food
Girls of Macedonia
South African Wine
American Peanut Butter
Romania's Castles

Know Thyself

Some of my favourite quotes:

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen.

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. - Groucho Marx

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. - Groucho Marx

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. - Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. - Ayn Rand

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Ayn Rand

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. - Jay Leno

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. - Saul Bellow

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. - Jim Bishop

MBA - What Is It? Should I Get One?

For those of you who are interested in doing an MBA but not sure whether it is what you want, check out the following links:

http://www.abbysguide.com/mba/guide/recommendation.html

http://www.cio.com/article/122508

10 Things That I Learnt At My Institute

1. Focus on your strengths rather than your weaknesses. (Achieving Peak Performance)
2. A good manager is the one who knows how to manage his own self and his time very well. (Achieving Peak Performance & Communication Skills)
3. To achieve good results sometimes it is essential to take risks, it is also important to diversify your resources. (Finance)
4. To lead the people you should understand them and provide them with support or direction depending on their situation. (Leadership)
5. Knowledge management is a strategic process, which implies the goal of differentiation from competitors such that a sustainable competitive advantage is forged. (Knowledge Management)
6. It is not only the job of the IT department to understandt the advantages of innovation and technology. (Managing Innovation and Technology)
7. SLEPT-IC !!! (Business and World Economy - Well, I'm not explaining this one now, you should come to BMI to understand it;))
8. Both quantitative and qualitative data are important for making interpretations, analysis and taking decisions. (Interpretation of Quantitative and Qualitative Data + Decision-Making)
9. The customer is the core element of a business. Their attitudes and behaviours are what we should first take into account as business people. (Business and World Economy + Conducting Business Research)
10. Base your business on your principles, values, your understanding of ethics. (Business Ethics)

Managing People

We'll have a lecture called Managing People in August. For me, it will be one of the most interesting lectures at BMI because after all what we are trying to do is to manage the people, right?

Corporate Transparency

Below please find a good article about the concept of corporate transparency. I found it very interesting:

http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/ECONOMY/eccles_en.pdf

Aishah's Wedding / La Boda de Aishah

It was our Spanish professor Aishah's wedding yesterday. I could not make it to the wedding which was sad.

I wish Aishah and Juan (as you can understand, her husband) happiness!

Luv ya loads Aishah!

What Ethics Is Not, What Principles Are

Well ethics is definitely not disrespecting others' beliefs, races, nationalities, genders, political ideas etc. It is not making the other people feel uncomfortable.

I'll keep on writing about that.

La Rambla / Las Ramblas

La Rambla is the most attractive street in Barcelona as you may all know, and I have to walk on that street everyday in order to go to the institute. There are some pet shops on La Rambla, and I realized that the little chicks that I saw in the cages a couple of weeks ago have already become mature chicken!

It is also very interesting to see the performers spending most of their day performing on La Rambla, and in the morning getting dressed up for their show. It is such a big chaos on La Rambla but that's what makes it attractive.

I'll write soon.

Vacation!

Well, the holiday will be over soon, and the intense period will start again.

The two-weeks holiday was definitely not enough!:)

It's definitely a good time to get borrached.